1. America and the Civil Rights Era

2. The Jim Crow South Jim Crow Laws Segregation Marriage Fire arms
Curfews
Segregation
Housing
Employment

7. Enforcing the will of Jim Crow
KKK
Membership skyrockets and stays steady through the 1930’s
Federal Government does little to dismantle this group
Use of Terror – terrorist group
Lynchings

12. Organizing NAACP SCLC Montgomery Improvement Society
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SCLC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Montgomery Improvement Society

13. Models of Non-violent Resistance
Suffragettes
UK & US 1890’s-1919
Gandhi
South Africa & India 1930’s
Dahlia Lama
Tibet 1940’s

14. Brown v Board of Education
1954
Linda Brown
Topeka Kansas
Thurgood Marshall
“Separate is inherently unequal…”
“with all deliberate speed…”
Gradualism

15.                                                                              
Background
In Topeka, Kansas in the 1950s, schools were segregated by race. Each day, Linda Brown and her sister, Terry Lynn, had to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to the bus stop for the ride to their all-black elementary school. There was a school closer to the Brown's house, but it was only for white students.
Linda Brown and her family believed that the segregated school system violated the Constitution. In particular, they believed that the system violated the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteeing that people will be treated equally under the law.

16. Confronting Segregation
Montgomery, Alabama 1955
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock, Arkansas1957
Little Rock 9
Greensboro, N. Carolina 1960
Greensboro 4
Interstate Travel
Freedom Riders 1961
Education
Ol’ Miss. 1962
James Meredith

22. Medgar Evars

23. Resistance Methods Non-Violent Resistance Sit-ins Boycotts
Civil Disobedience
Forced Confrontation
Voluntary arrest
Marches

24. Leadership Martin Luther King Malcolm X SCLC Nation of Islam
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
(1963)
I Have a Dream
Nobel Peace Prize
Non-Violence
Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Black Separatist
Direct Action
“By any means necessary”

25. March on Washington March 1963 Civil Rights Bill in Congress
“I Have a Dream”

26. Civil Rights Act 1964 Made the principles set forth in Brown LAW
                                                                           
Made the principles set forth in Brown LAW
President Johnson
Pressure from MLK
Southern “Block” of Senators
54 day filibuster
Outlawed segregation in any public place.

27. Alternative Voices Black Power Movement Black Panther Party SNCC
Black Nationalism
Nation of Islam

28. Black Panther Party for Self Defense
Bobby Seal & Huey Newton
Ten-Point Program
Land
Bread
Housing
Education
Clothing
Justice And Peace
Exemption from military service for African-American men

30. Mexico ‘68

31. “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud…”

32. 1967 & 1968 1967 – Riots in New Jersey, Detroit, Milwaukee etc… MLK
War on Poverty
1968 – MLK Killed

33. Milwaukee

34. Milwaukee after curfew was put in place…

35. Assassination of King Memphis, TN April 1968 Garbage Workers Strike
Workers prohibited from marching
King arrives to rally
“Mountain Top” Speech

37. Loraine Motel